Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hollow-eyed "cracker," part-time road worker, truck driver and tomato packer, son of a Nazarene preacher. He and his wife used to lodge with Skeegie Cash's parents. He knew the child well, and knew how much money James Bailey Cash, the father, had in the bank-just about $10,000, the sum asked for in ransom. McCall had professed great sympathy for the bereaved parents, had joined the first searching parties. But Mr. Cash's brother and sister-in-law grew suspicious of him when: 1) he "found" one of the ransom notes under Brother Cash...
...Bank Credit (loans and investments in 101 cities) dropped to $20,536,000,000, a two-and-a-half year low, continuing a steady ten-month slide. The complete sluggishness of business was demonstrated by its ever-waning interest in commercial loans. In New York City, an apparent reversal of the trend-an almost unparalleled rise of $465,000,000 in bank credit- was actually a confirmation of the condition. The temporary fluctuation was caused by banks (having more & more difficulty in finding investments) buying up huge quantities of maturing Treasury obligations so as to be able to turn them...
...under Author Stead's high-powered microscope, there are 125 assorted spiders-brokers, customers' men, blackmailers, toadies, shysters, Packingtown countesses, Blue Coast playboys, a bank glamor-girl, a society medium. But although every nation has its representative, the fighting is not on nationalistic lines. "No rich man," says Jules Bertillon, "is a patriot, no rich man a friend. They have all only got one fatherland-the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend-the mistress they're promising to divorce their wife for." Some of the spiders...
...Bitter Economist Michel Alphendery, a communist sympathizer, who says of his job: "We're riders of the storm: all of us together with him in this phantom bank, built on misery, shining out of mire, solid in an earthquake, soundproof in thunder, a living lightning conductor: an accident in capitalism...
...whining customers' man, who, coached by his coldblooded, canny wife, worms his way into the bank, plays the Black Widow that finally gobbles up the overconfident Bertillon...